 Drought: 旱災(zāi)；干旱季節(jié)
Drought: 旱災(zāi)；干旱季節(jié) [ 2005-07-22 09:12 ]
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7月18日，聯(lián)合國糧食及農(nóng)業(yè)組織呼吁國際社會向尼日爾250萬饑餓人口提供緊急援助。糧農(nóng)組織今年5月曾呼吁國際社會向尼日爾提供400萬美元緊急援助，但迄今只收到65萬美元。外電報道如下：The costs of saving millions of people starving in Niger are rocketing because rich nations ignored calls for early intervention to avert the ravages of last year's drought, relief workers said on Wednesday.
Increasingly desperate appeals from aid agencies and the government have encouraged donors to come forward with funds in the past few weeks, but only after large numbers of children began dying of diseases brought on by hunger.
"The funding needs are sky-rocketing because it's a matter of saving lives," said Gian Carlo Cirri, the U.N. World Food Program's (WFP) representative in Niger's capital Niamey.
Drought表示“旱災(zāi)；干旱季節(jié)，長期缺乏或不足”，相關(guān)的詞組有：drought-enduring（耐旱的）；drought-resistant（抗旱的）；combat drought（抗旱）；partial drought（小旱）等。
據(jù)悉，尼日爾近年遭受嚴(yán)重干旱和蝗蟲災(zāi)害侵襲，農(nóng)業(yè)生產(chǎn)遭到毀滅性打擊，全國大部分地區(qū)陷入糧荒，共有250萬人口處在經(jīng)常性饑餓中，其中80萬兒童嚴(yán)重營養(yǎng)不良。
（中國日報網(wǎng)站編）
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